Dr. Ihab Ilyas-Kaldas

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QCRI is one of the few serious research places in the Middle East and on track to be one for the key research centers worldwide. The opportunity of being part of this growing effort is the major attraction.

Research Focus at QCRI

Previous Experience

Ihab Ilyas is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo and VP research at Primal. He received his PhD in computer science from Purdue University, West Lafayette in 2004. He holds BS and MS degrees in computer science from Alexandria University, Egypt. He spent two summers with IBM Almaden Research Center and he is currently an IBM CAS faculty fellow since January 2006. His main research is in the area of database systems, with special interest in top-k and rank-aware query processing, managing uncertain and probabilistic databases, self-managing databases, indexing techniques, and spatial databases.

Professional Experience

Associate Professor: University of Waterloo, School of Computer Science, (2009 - present)

VP-Research: Primal Fusion, Waterloo (2009 – present)

Assistant Professor: University of Waterloo, School of Computer Science, (2004 - 2009)

George Beskales, Ihab F. Ilyas, and Lukasz Golab, “Sampling the Repairs of Functional Dependency Violations under Hard Constraints”, in Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Very Large Databases, VLDB 2010, Singapore, PVLDB 3(1): 197-207 (2010) (16%)

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2018

Each year, Qatar Computing Research Institute organizes a summer internship program for undergraduate students studying computer science, computer engineering and other disciplines. The internship is unpaid, and QCRI does not provide any visa support.

The Boeing Company and Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) will host the fifth annual Machine Learning and Data Analytics Symposium (MLDAS) in Qatar. This year’s event will be held at the Qatar...

Results From Joint Research Efforts To Bring Benefits To Local Residents Doha, 28 October 2014: Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) and the Qatar Mobility Innovations Center (QMIC) have signed...